Mold plate and replacer



May 4 1926. 1,583,406

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- WILLIA1![.H.M0CLELLAND, or nun'r-menoiv, PENNSYLVANIA, assicnon, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS,:T.O n01 P.. m. DAVIS, or MOUNT UNION, rENnsYLvAnIA.

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Application filed December 15; 1924. 'SerialN'o. 755,938.

Toall whom it may concern:

- Be it known that 'VILLIAM MoGLEL LAN-D, a citizen of the United States of America, residingat 325 Penn Street, Huntingdon, in the county of Huntingdon and State of Pennsylvania, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mold Plates and Replacers of which the follow ing-is a specification. 7

My inventionrelates-to moldfiplates and mold replacers 'for brick making machines; "Inbri'c'k making machines of the type illustrated in the copending application of the assigneeof record in this case R. PFM. Davis, Serial No. 57 6,298, filed July 20, 1922, which has become Patent No. 1,498,614, it is essential that the empty brick molds'be placed on the mold supports or plates and maintained thereon against relative horizontal movement. The proper positioning of the mold on the plate is'diificult due to the fact that frequently considerable variation exists in the alignment of the plate with respect to the station from which the molds are advanced. It is the object of my invention to accomplish the foregoing desid erata and to obviate the objections just .mentioned. v

In the accompanying drawings wherein I have illustrated a preferred embodiment of my invention:

Figure 1 is a plan view showing the mold in initial position on the mold table;

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same;

Figure 3 is a fragmentary plan view showing the mold in final position on the mold plate;

Figure 4 is a detail section on the line 4-4 Figures 5, 6, 7, showing the various positions assumedby the mold. I

Referring more specifically to the drawings 1, denotes a mold plate or support, supported by the reciprocating carriage (not shown) of a not shown). This plate 1, is provided at each end with rearwardly and inwardly inclined bars 2, which are bolted as at 3, to lugs 4, projecting from the ends of the mold plate or support 1.

. A mold delivery station 5, is arranged adjacent the path of movement of the mold plate 1,.and when-the plate arrives opposite the station at the approximate position illus-' top guides 10 and brick making machine (also trated in Figure '1 the mold 12, hereinafter more specifically described is pushed upon the plate ,in a manner also to be presently described.

The mold delivery station 5, comprises a mold table or supporting frame work having'a pair of spaced skid rails '7, provided with downwardly incli-ned forward ends 8. Positioned at each end of the table 6, is a side guide member or strip '9, to'each of which is attached an inwardlyproiectingtop guide member 10,:the outer ends of the sidegu i'de members being outwardly deflected 'at 11, as illustrated in Figure 1.

Molds 12, which are fed to the table 6, by any suitable means (not shown) are of skeleton formation, comprising side walls 13-13 end walls 14-14 and partitions 15. As previously stated when mold plate 1, reaches Figure 1 position the mold 12, is

horizontally disposed manually or otherwise pushed inwardly to Figure 1 position by any suitable means such as pusher bars 16. In being moved to this position the mold 12, is initially guided by the deflected ends 11, of the side guides 9, and is then moved under the top guides 10, in its passage to Figure 5 position.

Continued movement of the pusher bars in the direction of the arrow Figure 1, causes the mold 1, to reach Figure 6 position, the

mold being precluded from overbalancing on the skid rails 7, by the top guides 10. Further movement of the V mold releases the outer edge of the mold from beneath the Flgure 7 position, resting partially on the skid rails and partially on the inclined bars 2, of the plate 1. The rear bottom portion of the mold then slides down the downwardly inclined ends of the skid rails and rests upon the top ofthe plate -1, between the bars 2, the bottom edge of the forward side wall13 of the mold riding upon the bars 2. Upon completion of the stroke, the forward side plate of the mold rides over the ends of the bars 5, whereupon the mold assumes a horizontal or Figure 9 position,the end walls of the mold being snugly engaged between the forward beveled ends 17 of the bars 2, while the opposite ends of the bars 2, engage the respective side walls of the mold. The pusher bars 16, willthen be moved back to their starting position by any suitable means (not shown) and the mold the mold then assumes plate with mold thereon will be ready to be moved to filling position, to receive a charge of mud.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as my invention is: v I

1. In combination a table having skid rails adapted to supportthereon a skeleton brick mold, a mold plate arranged adjacent the table, means for sliding said mold on said skid rails to said mold plate and means on said plate for centering said mold with respect to said plate and preventing movement of said mold in a horizontal plane relative to said plate.

2. As an article of manufacture, a mold plate for supporting skeleton molds having side and end Walls, said plate having rear- Wardly converging side bars adapted to engage the said side and end Walls of the mold.

, 3. In combination a table having skid rails adapted to support thereon a skeleton mold comprising side and end Walls, a mold plate adjacent said. table, said mold plate mold plate, and means for sliding said mold from said rails to said superposed position.

4. In combination a tab-1e having skid.

rails adapted to support thereon a skeleton brick mold, side and top guides on said table for the mold, a mold plate-adjacent said table and in a relatively loWer horizontal plane, and" means for pushing said mold along said skid rails between said side guides and beneath said top guides onto said plate.

5. In combination a table having skid rails adapted to support thereon a skeleton brick mold, a mold plate arranged adjacent the table, and in a relatively lower horizontal plane, and means for sliding said mold on said skid rails to said mold plate.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

IVILLIAM H. M oOLELLAND. 

